(1) Nicola Gobbo says she just wanted to feel needed and as if she belonged. "Was I accumulating information and, on one level, trying to impress people? Yes I was," she said.

(2) Former homicide squad detective Ron Iddles warned her that then-chief commissioner Simon Overland would "burn" her and shouldn't be trusted. She says he sent her a message of support last year, along the lines of "you've been treated appallingly by Victoria Police, stay strong".

(3) Ms Gobbo knew one of her clients was involved in a plot to kill one of his drug trafficking co-accused to force a new trial. Hitman Matthew Johnson was hired to kill the man, but went to the wrong location. "I was told afterwards. They were laughing about it," she said.

(4) Her claims she was pivotal in the first major gangland witness to roll was a "mild exaggeration", but she still claims some credit for helping the man go through with his plan to assist police.

(5) She met drug kingpin Tony Mokbel while working as a solicitor and later became his barrister. "I did derive some self-importance and some feeling that I was relevant ... by reason of being wanted by people like Tony," she confessed. Mokbel introduced her to underworld killer Carl Williams, whose daughter's glitzy christening she attended in 2003. "A whole table of lawyers went. I was the only one stupid enough to make a speech though," she said.

(6) Going to Victoria Police in 2005 and becoming an informer to put Mokbel and his family out of her life was a mistake, she says. "Going to them was an insane, idiotic thing to do ... wrong on so many levels and what then transpired was just more craziness," she said.

(7) Ms Gobbo claims suggestions she knew she was being used as an alibi by Williams for the murder of Jason Moran is "rubbish". The man who told the inquiry she did know was "one of the biggest gossips in the whole of Melbourne".

(8) Ms Gobbo made an unsigned statement to police in 2009 claiming that Mark Perry, a man acquitted over the 2003 murder of Shane Chartres-Abbott, had confessed his involvement in the killing to her. But Ms Gobbo says she cannot remember him telling her that, or her telling police. "It's something you would think would stick in your mind if you had that conversation ... and I have no recollection of it," she said.

(9) Legal ethics was Ms Gobbo's best subject when studying law at the University of Melbourne. She also began a Masters degree, researching the relationship between police and informers. "Looking back on where we are now, it's laughable in a horrendous way," she said.

(10) Ms Gobbo was concerned she would be implicated in crimes because she put former policeman Paul Dale in contact with Williams, who claimed he had helped Mr Dale arrange the murder of Terence Hodson. A murder charge against Mr Dale was dropped. "There's a difference between being a link and knowing a murder's been planned," she said.

Australian Associated Press